Safety mailing-case



R. A. GRAY.

SAFETY MAILING CASE.

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Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

anmmtoz H Hun ROSE A. GRAY, OF BELOIT, KANSAS.

SAFETY MAILING-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed November 25, 1918. Serial No. 264,025.

' 7 '0 all whom it may concern ings.

This invention relates to mailing cases or cartons, and partlcularly to a case designed to contain pictures, drawings, paintings or the like objects for shipment by mail. The general object of the invention is to provide a case of this character so designed that drawings or' the like will not be creased, folded or otherwise damaged in sending them throgh the mail, the case being so designed, however, that the drawings are not required to be rolled.

A further object is to provide a case of this character made from a one piece blank, if necessary, and another object is to provide a case of this character With a brace which may be shifted in order to permit the introduction of the drawing or other article into the case-but when in place prevents the two sides of the case from' being collapsed or crushed.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description. a

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a face view of a blank for a mailing case constructed in accordance with my invention;

Fig.2 is a longitudinal of the mailing ease closed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary transverse sectional View on the line 33 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to these drawings, and particularly to Fig. 1, it will be seen that my improved case may be made of one sheet of heavy cardboard or other material, formed to provide the two sides 10 and 11 and the back 12. In other words, the sides 10 and sectional view 11 may be compared to the boards of a book and the back 12 with the back of the book. The blank is creased, scored or otherwise formed at 13 to, in a measure, hinge, the sides 10 and 11 to the back. Theside 10 is formed at its ends with the fiaps 14, which are preferably wider adjacent the back 12. These parts 10, 11 and 12 are all preferably extra thick or reinforced. The free margin of the side 10 is also scored and slit to provide the flange 15 and the angular-1y turned tabs 16.

When the ends 14 and the portion 15 are turned up at right angles to the portion 10, the tabs 16 are bent at right angles to the portion 15 and attached to the ends 14 as by paper fasteners. The side 11 is also formed with ends 14 adapted to be turned up at right angles to the plane of the portion 11 and attached to and formed as part of the portion 11 is the flap 1'? which is jointed to the part 11 by a portion 18 corresponding in width to the width of the portion 15 and scored at its junction with the part 11 and with the part 17. Preferably the end flaps 14 and 14 are formed with registering apertures 19 wherebywhen the parts 10 and 11 are disposed in confronting relation attaching means may be disposed through the perforations so as to hold the parts 10 and 11 in proper closed position. The side 10 is also provided with an aperture through which a paper fastener 20 is placed so as to engage through an aperture 21 in the flap17.

Extending transversely between the end flaps 14 is a roller 22 which is made of wood or other like material and is fastened in place by tacks, screws or other fastening devices 23 passing through the flaps 14 and into the ends of the roller. This roller is disposed adjacent the widest portions of the flaps 14 and the middle of the roller is grooved as at 24. Disposed within this groove 24 is a metallic clip 25 having two arms U-sha-pcd in cross section, spaced from each other and embraced and connected by these arms to this metallic clip is a brace 26 which may be made of wood, metal or heavy cardboard and which has more or less the same shape asthe end portions 14 but is not quite so deep. This brace 26 may be rotated upon the roller 22. Anynumber of these braces may be used.

Preferably the end members 14 and the flange 15 will be reinforced upon their inside or outside faces by pasting thereon relatively heavy strips-of cardboard so as to render these ends thoroughly strong and resistive to crushing force when the case is folded into shape. I have not illustrated this reinforcement as it is obvious. Furthermore, while I have illustrated the blank shown in Fig. 1, as being made of one piece of material, it is obvious that it might be made of a plurality of pieces of material connected toeach other by cloth hinges at the points where the blankis. illustrateditas.

scored. Preferably also the roller 23 will be coveredwith canton-flannel 27, -w-itl'r the nap outward so that the roller will not tend article which. isdesired to be shipped inlit isi slipped beneath the. roller, and transverse brace, 26 and'fthen cunved aroundthe roller and. over upon; itself. so that the brace 26 is, disposed between the. two parallel. por-' tions, of the picture or other object. n Then the side. 11., is folded over. upon the COVE]? 01? side, 10 and. theyfasteningr devices are engagedthrough theperforations 19 and the paperfastener; 20 is engaged throughthe opening21. and the articleiis ready for'ship- .2613 of' damage, becausethe pictureis. not. folded; It. is simply-curved around the Inent.] It will bezseen thatthis device permits' pictures of the. most delicate character to-=be transmitted in the mail, without danroller. without creasingfthe, picture andflthe beneatli ithe roller'without trouble.

designed I :rfollertand the, brace williprevent thesides being. collapsed or crushed "upon each other and V thusv preverjrtany. creasing of the picture. It Willi-be noted athat, the .reason., for rotatahly.

mounting the brace 26j'upon the r011er22 is to permit this brace to be turned up into a position. allowing thecaiticle to beinserted Y While'.this case is particularly. forzthegshipment of finefdra ings, etchings,

prints, and the like, it,will.be,understood that it may be used for; the shipment v of a va-,

rietytof. other arti01e and that I ;do not 1 wish, to ,be, limited-Ito: the details of con-v 1- end walls locked; toeach other when? the case,

i which .the case-is, made orthe use to which.

struct'ion; asjll-ustrated- 'It willibe; understood-1 hat agreater num her. of-paper fasteners, might be u ed :injthe end walls. ligand 14:"? inorder to hold these isjclosed; the, number, ofthese" fasteningj dcvices being dependent upon, the material of the case ist-put. It is obvious thatthe; case 1 may bemade of various sizes and thickness of material. The brace. 01'. braces, 26 are: to

have a width suiiicient, to permit; the artiole, such as.-a,.map, .pictureior'the like to bedisposedrbetween the edgesot the brace,

or braces 26. and the casejwithout mashing,

indenting, or. .otherwiseIdanraging the article ,It. is also ObVlOllS that the article, :ifin; the 'formof. a; .map or relatively long, strip,

may be readily si ped iterat (if times case out flat and laying the flaps 15, 17 and '18'out fiat, and then the article may be readily slipped beneath the roller and; curved over somas to lie against the opposite edge faces ofthe brace or braces 26 so the. article may be wrapped around the rollerand, the

edge faces, of the braces a numberof. times,

a ter. which the'v blank. be folded up Q in its complete", form.

Inlaim l.; A mailing case having aback and 'two sides foldably, connected withthe back. and

having, end, portions foldably connected to. each of the' ides, a'fianged portion connected.

to, the edge of one of, the sides,. .and affiapf connectedto the edge. of the other side,

means, for holding ,the parts, with the tWo sides in;confrontingirelation toeach other, i i

a roller extending between and attached to tWo of the end f-portions acent the. back, I anda brace rotatively connected to the roller I and adapted topextend between Qthesides par:

allel to: the, endportions thereof;

'2. .A,. mailing acase'. ofjthe' portions, a, roller. attached i tojthegend-i porcharacter, de-l V V scribed having two side a h ck e -j' tiQnS; adjacentj'theback andifoverwhichanf f 7 article, isadaptedftobe bent, and'a brace ex tending at -I1iglit. angl es toijthe axis of "the roller; andlrotat'ably connected thereto, and,

extencling parallelj to; the, .endf portions of i thetcaSe.

shaman-111 as. of. ".thegcharacter at; scribed having two" sides, a back and lend portions, a roller. attached to. the; end-portions adjacentthe baGkand over; which an,

art cle. is adapted befbent, and a: brace extending at right angles tethe axis of'the roller and i rotatably", connected thereto. and

extending parallel? to the end portions-of the case, the roller being formed, withha i groovee-andrthe brace-being connected to Said ,7

roller by a curved'metallicfclip disposedlin' said groove.

attached. to the mailing case, adjacent the connected thereto. and: extending parallel to the end'ed'ges ofsaid sides.

In testimony whereof I Witnesses:

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hereunto aiiix signature in the. preseneeflof two witnesses. V ROSE A. GRAY.

' V egxiA maili -lg case; Offthg character" described having two sides and a back, a roller' 

